This cannot be correct. Why would I not be able to give her account access to delete her shows after she watches them, seems quite nuts. She is now sending me emails to remove them. this software cannot be this Lame, can it?
There’s this feature to auto delete episodes after watching which we requested Plex extend to all users in a Plex home. Currently it only supports admin account. Will look for the feature suggestion so that you can vote for it.
We need to be able to give users admin privileges per library. My wife has a DVR library but the admin has to delete files after a while.
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Set the Keep option:
Keep
Set the maximum number of unwatched episodes to keep for the show. Available options:
- All episodes
- 5 episodes
- 3 episodes
- 1 episode
- Episodes from the past 3 days
- Episodes from the past 7 days
- Episodes from the past 30 days
This has no effect, if it’s not the admin who watches the show.
If she has been given access to the DVR (and not just the library where the recorded shows are stored), she can schedule her own shows to be recorded.
And if it’s a show that has been scheduled and recorded by her, then she should be able to delete the watched episodes.
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That is the “Delete Episodes After Watching”, Keep will delete them watched or not. Well as long as the scheduled tasks are working correctly.
All very SAD to read And really hard to believe I cannot let my wife delete her soap operas and that Plex requires me to do it. NRfPT
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These in particular could work. I have a managed user that watches episodes. The “delete after being watched” option won’t work for anyone but Admin, but at least the “keep at most X episodes” or “keep episodes from the last X days” options will auto-clean up old episodes, preventing older episodes from building up.
If the OP asks their wife to set the record option to one of these last two options, they will clean up automatically, while building up a bit of backlog for busy days. Once they set the option once, it becomes the default going forward.
Please add your vote.
@blackzwe I just checked out the Feature Suggestion category (FS), there appear to be thousands of entries, and most look like very specific things that probably only one or two persons would ever want. I looked for a list of FS that had been implemented but couldn’t find a list. I would imagine that suggestion category is pretty much a waste of our time. Also, I’m not looking for Auto Deletes, just a simple manual delete for a user that should be allowed to delete her shows, like every other app out there. There are very basic things that Plex is missing to bring it into something the masses would run toward. Right now, its more of a niche thing that is trying to be all things to all people and falling very short on the basics. Heck is there even a list of new items they have added over the years? That would be Very Informative as to who their Management is pandering too. -Bill
LOL, what app does that?
The whole delete feature in Plex is totally pointless IMHO. Why on earth should a media server in general or even some user on that server be able to delete media files on that server?
Why delete media files anyways?
ROFL, maybe because she watched her soap opera episodes and there are 230+ episodes per year at 6+ gb mpegs 1.4tb of soaps each year. Not to mention all her other shows. Besides, why would we want to keep any watched tvshows? And yes, every other media server lets anyone you give permission to delete shows. Except plex. Myth, SageTV, Channels, Emby, tablo, Tivo, Replay tv, HDhomerun, Channel Master, AirTV, Jellyfin, and probably a hundred more that let you delete the shows you’ve watched and even not watched with a couple Are you Sures…
Interesting. I let my media servers (I run Plex, Emby, Jellyfin) don’t even have write permission on my media folders. I guess I handle things pretty different obviously.
That would make recording shows to them fairly difficult I would expect. So, If not recording anything new, then deleting watched shows wouldn’t be a requirement. You must not be using the DVR functionality built into Plex.
Not anymore. But when I used it, DVR’d content didn’t went to my media library of course, but to a dedicated DVR library and folder.
Yeah, not a real solution. Had set that up and she went about 7 days without watching one of her shows and she had lost 2 of them. Plex just seems half thought thru to not have a setting that allows them to delete their shows. Its really missing so much functionality considering what was avialable in 2005. I need to find something that understands what a DVR needs to provide. All I really need is a client for SageTV that will do H.265 playback. As, it was a fully featured DVR back in 2005 when I first found it. Probably why Google Bought them, when the put it into the public domain I thought it couldn’t get any better but the clients never got upgraded. And I cannot find anything that even comes close to being a bulletproof with OTA recordings as it.
Well, lots of impractical answers here, and NO solutions… but i can now I know who the fanboys are so i can see if the forum allows blocks. :0 Geez.
Too bad we couldn’t figure something out here. Unless you have your wife log in as the admin user itself, no managed users or non-home-admins are allowed to delete content on a server. If she is more tech-savy, you could ask her to delete the files directly by giving her direct access to the file system.
But I guess Plex’s UI is meant to protect the media content from deletion by possible rogue users. I’m scared enough that Plex is allowed to delete my files (it needs this to delete old recordings automatically as per my earlier suggestion).
FWIW, you can set up to have Plex auto-delete episodes of a show after 30 days (maximum time). If even that is too short, then I don’t see a solution here right now. 
Yeah, it’s really poor design for something that can be used as a DVR to record daily TVshows. But there are plenty of other substandard options meant to make things about as difficult as possible for users. -Bill
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